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Contents

Hardware features........................................................................................................................ 5

Board components .................................................................................................................................... 5

Controller specifications .............................................................................................................................5

Overview of the installation procedure ............................................................................................ 7

Installing the controller in an unconfigured server .......................................................................................... 7

Installing the controller in a previously configured server ................................................................................ 7

Installing the controller hardware.................................................................................................... 9

Before beginning the installation ................................................................................................................. 9

Preparing the server................................................................................................................................... 9

Installing the controller board...................................................................................................................... 9

Connecting storage devices...................................................................................................................... 10

Updating the firmware ................................................................................................................ 11

Methods for updating the firmware............................................................................................................ 11

Configuring an array .................................................................................................................. 12

Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 12

Comparing the utilities ............................................................................................................................. 12

Using ORCA........................................................................................................................................... 13

Using ACU............................................................................................................................................. 14

Using CPQONLIN................................................................................................................................... 14

Setting drive rebuild, expand priority, and accelerator ratio................................................................ 14

Expanding an array....................................................................................................................... 15

Adding or configuring spare drives.................................................................................................. 15

Migrating RAID level and stripe size online....................................................................................... 16

Setting the boot controller and controller order............................................................................... 17

Setting a controller as the boot controller.................................................................................................... 17

Setting the controller order........................................................................................................................ 17

Installing device drivers and Management Agents .......................................................................... 18

Installing device drivers............................................................................................................................ 18

Installing Management Agents .................................................................................................................. 18

Upgrading or replacing controller options ..................................................................................... 19

Replacing a battery ................................................................................................................................. 19

Upgrading the cache............................................................................................................................... 20

Replacing, moving, or adding hard drives..................................................................................... 22

Identifying the status of a hard drive .......................................................................................................... 22

Recognizing hard drive failure.................................................................................................................. 23

Effects of a hard drive failure .......................................................................................................... 24

Compromised fault tolerance .......................................................................................................... 24

Recovering from compromised fault tolerance.................................................................................... 24

Replacing hard drives.............................................................................................................................. 24

Hard drive replacement guidelines .................................................................................................. 25

Automatic data recovery (rebuild).................................................................................................... 25

Upgrading hard drive capacity ....................................................................................................... 27

Moving drives and arrays ........................................................................................................................ 28

Adding drives......................................................................................................................................... 28

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